Uh, seems like a contradiction, amigo. Should you ever duplicate what the bass player is doing? Beats me, I'm no piano player.

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Bill
Yamaha PSR2000

Bill,
If the piano plays a different bass line than the bass drummer, it sounds terrible. He can play single notes, but they must be the same as the bass. If the bass is on the root and the piano bass is on the third or something else it ruins both.
I have a friend that has played piano in bands for years, including a stint with Ray Price. He is a superb technician, in addition to having a great ear, and most of what I know about piano playing with a band I learned from him. I mentioned him to you yesterday.
Also, ask HankB about the Rockabilly band he's playing with. It's based around a Jerry Lee Lewis type performer, and Hank plays bass.
DonM

Try to get someone to teach you about 'open' chord voicing. For string, brass and many other sounds, dividing the chord up between hands allows a wider voicing, greater separation of the notes, and a far clearer, less 'muddy' sound to the chord (it is also good on piano!)

You've got a long road ahead of you, filled with wonderful discoveries and dangerous traps. The modern keyboard player is not just expected to play all keyboard sounds (B3, Piano, Rhodes, Clavinets, etc.) but to also play just about ANY other instrument sound well, and idiomatically. Strings, brass, woodwinds, guitars, you name it.....

A good teacher now, before you've developed too many bad habits, will speed up the learning curve enormously.

Do not overplay ,know your range.

careful with them in rock solos/backings.

[This message has been edited by jamman (edited 11-14-2006).]